ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS — A New Jersey man serving time for the 1992 murder of his wife on the cliffs of the Palisades has some unlikely allies in his appeal of his conviction, according to a CBS 2 report.

Stephen Scharf has been serving a life sentence in a New Jersey state prison since 2008, when a cold case investigation found that he'd thrown his wife from the cliffs, a death that for years was recorded as accidental.

CBS 2 reports that Scharf is planning an appeal, and has the help of a physicist, Jim Kellinger, who says the evidence shows Scharf's wife Jody Ann would have landed closer to the base of the cliffs had she been pushed.

The two were reportedly resolving a marital dispute at the Rockefeller Lookout along the Palisades Interstate Parkway when Jody Ann died. Stephen Scharf admitted to the television station that he'd frequently cheated on his wife but claimed he was no killer.

“I am innocent of this,” he said.

The Record reported in March that another man, Florida-based inventor and scientist Jim Miekka, had also taken interest in the case and disputed the evidence.

But a retired PIP police officer, Walter Siri, told the station that Scharf offered conflicting alibis under questioning.

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"His story changed many times," he said. "They were sitting together at the cliff and she stood up and fell. They were walking, and he told me she slipped, and he didn’t see her anymore."

The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office has also disputed Scharf's claims of innocence.

"The story was that she had fallen off a cliff," Prosecutor John Molinelli said when Scharf was convicted in 2008. "But based upon our current analysis of where the body was found and the height of the cliff, we determined that it was not possible for her to be where she was and to have simply fallen."